Is technology destroying the jobs market beyond repair?

[Malcolm Everett]

Technology is fantastic, I can't believe how things have changed in the last 30 years or so. 30 years ago computers were so basic, do you remember loading up games from a cassette on a Spectrum ZX and it sounded like something alien? Things like mobile phones, the internet, satellite tv, etc didn't exist. How did people live without these things? It is great how good these things are but isn't technology now causing huge problems in destroying the jobs market? Computer software being so cheap and saving so much time doing tasks is making so many jobs redundant. So many office jobs are disappearing, machines have taken over people's jobs, retail shops are closing because of the online market.
Where is it all going to end? Whilst technology gets more and more advanced it is going to make more and more jobs redundant. It is surely a problem?

[DaveBWFC]

If machines ever work out how to reproduce themselves we'll be fúcked.

[Le God]

Genuinely i wonder how far away we are from this



100 years? 50 years?

[Malcolm Everett]

If machines ever work out how to reproduce themselves we'll be fúcked.

I wonder if maybe one day robots will do everything and people can live the life of Reilly just enjoying themselves. Maybe in 500 years time people will be laughing watching videos of people working from the past.
It does make you wonder what technology will be like in 500 years from now and just how many jobs will remain.

[watty]

I wonder if maybe one day robots will do everything and people can live the life of Reilly just enjoying themselves. Maybe in 500 years time people will be laughing watching videos of people working from the past.
It does make you wonder what technology will be like in 500 years from now and just how many jobs will remain.

3 jobs will be left

[Natasha Whittam]

Technology is fantastic, I can't believe how things have changed in the last 30 years or so. 30 years ago computers were so basic, do you remember loading up games from a cassette on a Spectrum ZX and it sounded like something alien? Things like mobile phones, the internet, satellite tv, etc didn't exist. How did people live without these things? It is great how good these things are but isn't technology now causing huge problems in destroying the jobs market? Computer software being so cheap and saving so much time doing tasks is making so many jobs redundant. So many office jobs are disappearing, machines have taken over people's jobs, retail shops are closing because of the online market.
Where is it all going to end? Whilst technology gets more and more advanced it is going to make more and more jobs redundant. It is surely a problem?

Don't worry Mich, there'll always be a place for professional burger flippers like yourself.

[Abdul-Salam Bilal]

You luddite.  Destroy the looms!

[ReebokTrotter]

Genuinely i wonder how far away we are from this



100 years? 50 years?

That robot in the picture has already been built. Cloning is the future.

[Fred Scuttle]

You luddite.  Destroy the looms!

But only the powerlooms (a pedant interjects)